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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1937.

CINEMA STAR'S FLOOD ESCAPE Three Members Of Company Drown On Location

EMPIRE'S PART

IN CORONATION

MEMBERS OF

COMMISSION

CHAIRMAN DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

The appointment by the King of a new Empire Coronation Commission, which will meet in London to consider aspects of the Coronation of common concern, has been announced from Buckingham Palace.

CAIRO AGAIN FACES CRITICAL SITUATION

The ugly spectre of disease has reared its head in a camp of flood relief workers at Memphis, Ten-

nessee.

REUTER REPORTS THAT DYSENTERY HÁS BROKEN OUT AMONG THE FLOOD RELIEF WORKERS IN THE CAMP. NO INFORMATION HAS BEEN GIVEN AS TO THE EXTENT OF THE OUTBREAK BUT EVERY PRECAUTION IS BEING TAKEN TO PREVENT THE DISEASE SPREADING.

Meanwhile the

efforts of i

-The Duke of Gloucester is chairman; of the Commission, which includes the members of the Privy Council Corona- tion Committee, the Prime Ministers of Canada, South Africa, New Zealand 120,000 workers have hitherto and Australia, and the High Commis-kept the Mississippi within its sioners in London of these countries.

dom.

banks but the crest of the flood

Cairo Anxieties

The Commission's appointment re- has not yet reached Memphis. sults from the fact that since the Coronation of King George V. the Dominions have acquired a new status 'under the Statute of Westminster, re-

In addition the slow fall of the quiring recognition of their equal inter- ests with those of the United King-river at Cairo only three inches in sixty hours is worrying en- Dominion Representatives

gineers, especially in view of fore- The names of those chosen for King casts of further heavy rain and a Edward VIII.'s Coronation Commission rise of sixteen inches at St. Louis. were announced on July 21. The Duke

Women and children are still be- of York was then chairman.

Members of the new. Commissioning kept away from Caire while the

Red Cross he has ordered coasti guard boats to stand by in readi- Dess to evacuate the men at a mo- ment's notice.

are:

United Kingdom. The persons who will act as members of the Coronation Committee of the Privy Council

Canada-The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King; the High Commis- sioner in London, Mr. Vincent Massey; Lt Col G. P. Vanier.

Australia. The

Prime Minister,

Deathroll Higher

The dead in the Mid-West flood Mr. J. A. Lyons; the High Commission-area are now known to number 415, er in London, Mr. S. M. Bruce; Sir while the American Red Cross is Isaac Isaacs, Sir John Latham, George Rich, Mr. John Curtin.

Sir

New Zealand-The Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph Savage; the Minister of Finance, Customs and Marketing, Mr. Walter Nash; the High Commissioner in London, Mr. W. J. Jordan.

South Africa. The Prime Minister Gen. Hertzog, the High Commissioner in London, Mr. C. T. te Water.

The members of the new Commis- sion are largely the same as those ap- pointed by King Edward.

The Coronation Committee of the Privy Council, which is also headed by the Duke of Gloucester, consists of 42

persons.

caring for 170,000 families and has raised the sum of $16,755,000 from the public for relief work.

Three members of a film company were drowned yester day in serious floods in South California following torrential rain and melting snow on the kills.

Film Star Marooned

Judith Allen, the screen star and her husband, Jack Doyle, the Irish singer pugilist.

Kingly Tombs For Egypt's Mummies

CAIRO, TO-DAY.

THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT IS TAKING STEPS TO REMOVED FROM THEIR ORI. GIVE THE ROYAL MUMMIES GINAL RESTING PLACES DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS TOMBS WORTHY BY EGYPTOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS OF THEIR KINGLY STATUS.

This step has been prompted by the increasing resentment among

NOBODY TO Egyptians at what they regard as

BE LEFT OUT?

BALKAN STATES

AND COLONIES

Athens, To-day. In the event of the re-distribu- tion of colonies assuming practical significance in the near future, the Balkan States will also come for- ward with claims to be allotted ter- ritories abroad.

This is the assertion made by the newspaper "Hellenikon Melon.”

The paper declares that the Bal- kan Conference, which opens on February 15, will discuss the co-

The company, which included the They include the Duke of Norfolk, film star Judith Allen, was work-lonial question from the standpoint the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Neville Cham- ing on location when they were berlain and Mr. Lloyd George. Mr. marooned by the floods. Walter Elliot, Secretary for Scotland.

desecration of the sacred relics of Egypt's past.

A site will be chosen either near Gizeh, in the neighbourhood of the Pyramids, or in Heliopolis, where a mausoleum will be built and the King's reinterred with elaborate. ceremonial.

Further disturbance of Royal Tombs is to be strictly forbidden, and where possible, Royal mummies now abroad will be brought back to Egypt-Trans-Ocean.

ARAB RIGHTS IN PALESTINE

Promises Attributed To Commissioner

Jerusalem, To day

offered Arab leaders have been that the embargo on immigration imposed by so many overseas coun- seats on the Legislative Council Hundreds of others were evacuat-tries, compels the Balkan States to according to newspaper reports here. look for other outlets for their sur The reports state that the High plus population.

is now a member, Sir Godfrey Collinsed from their fooded homes by having died since King Edward's roboat Reuter. clamation Sir Samuel Hoare, as First

Lord of the Admiralty, replaces. Vis-

count Monsell, whom he succeeded. MME. LOVTSOFF TO

- New Zealand's new High Commis- sioner in London, Mr. W. J. Jordan. succeeds Sir C. J. Parr as one of his country's representatives.

GIVE CONCERT

An addi- Noted Russian Singer

At Helena May

tional member is the New Zealand Minister of Finance, Customs and Mar- keting. Mr. Walter Nash, who arrive in England on Nov. 10.

FRENCH AMBASSADOR -

To local music circles, the forth- coming visit of Madame Anna Lovtsoff will afford an excellent treat. A charming soloist, Madame Shanghai, To-day-The French Lovtsoff has had a splendid career Ambassador to China left for Han-in the vocal art, and her clear lyric kow yesterday at the invitation of soprano voice has entertained many French residents there. Our Own audiences in North China cities and Correspondent.

jin Russia.

Madame Lovtsoff will be render- About 60 feet of plating above ing a classic programme of opera- the water-line was torn away from tie arias, folk songs and selections the collier Oxshott (1.241 tons) from several of the more celebrat- when she was in collision with the ed maestroes. Her concert which P. and O steamer Soudan (6,577 will be held at the Helena May In- tons) off Greenhithe, Kent last stitute on Wednesday, February 17, month. The Soudan, outward will interest all who have an ap bound, later. resumed her voyage.preciation of

One such possibility, states the article, would be the allocation of

colonial territories.

s-Trans-Ocean.

The Programme will be as fol- lows:-

Kuma's Aria-From the Opera

"Charodeika".(Tchaikovsky). Martha's Aria-From the Opera

"The Tzar's Bride"

(Rimsky-Korsakov). Aria "Saper Vorreste" (Verdi). From the Opera "Un Ballo in

Maschera"

Antonina's Aria-

Commissioner, General Sir Arthur Wauchope, proposed this to the Arab nationalists yesterday, at the

same time offering them wider po-

wers...

The High Commissioner is also said to have guaranteed the Arabs that Jews would never be allowed to be in the majority in Palestine.

Sir Arthur is about to leave for England to make a personal report on the situation Trans-Ocean.

UNITED SALVATION ALLIANCE

From the opera "Life for the

Shanghai, To-day. (Glinka).

National Salvation Galka's Aria No. 7 From the Opera A United

Galks

... (S. Monashko). Alliance is championed by educa- Ti Moe Outro Classical song tional and commercial leaders here, (Baron V. Wrangel) headed by Mr. Yu Ya-ching, the Russian National Songs

shipping magnate, and Dr. John C. Doushechka Dievitza-

***** (Dargomishsky).H. Wu, member of the legislative

Yuan Shiroka v Polish Daroga

(Nicolaevsky) A pamplet har been prepared

(Fomin)

and all provinces and cities invited to join this movem Union News.

Travoushka Mouravushka- musical talent.

Piano accompaniments by Max. N. Kanis

There were no casualties. The Son- Bookings at Moutrie's: dan is due in Hong Kong next week(Continued at foot of Next Col)